If All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail [Digipak] *

By simply learning how to look at the world around us more creatively we can experience life more fully, David Finn assures us. The acclaimed photographer reveals - in a charming, intimate, conversational text and evocative photographs - how to develop an enriched way of seeing. Writing on such themes as "the mind's eye", "the gift of light", and "forms that shape our lives", Finn implores readers to experience the world visually with sensitivity, imagination, and passion. He shares his own personal...

"I was the son of a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man...." Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight for a greater cause. Though still a boy, Sam becomes a regimental drummer with a "colored regiment" and sees action the Wilderness campaign at Fredericksburg...

Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows because she's one of them. Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief. For thirty years she kept on her game face of success, exhausting herself daily to satisfy her clients' needs while neglecting her own. Terrie finally collapsed, staying in bed for days. She had hit rock...